“When it comes to the digital sphere, we want to make it fair. It’s shocking that on average 60% of websites did not comply with basic consumer rules between 2007 and 2019…. This is why we want to ...

You open a free app to do one simple thing. Before you even start, a full-screen message asks whether you want to try the ...

Users need to learn to identify these design tricks on websites and apps, says Yanely Espinal of Marketplace’s “Financially Inclined.” “Dark patterns” are everywhere on the web. These are design ...

With a growing number of states having passed comprehensive consumer data privacy laws (19 in total, with seven passed this year alone), state enforcement actions related to data privacy are growing ...

French lawyer and entrepreneur Marie Potel-Saville, whom I met at Lisbon’s Web Summit, has a mission: to root out dark patterns in the digital world. Her company, Fair Patterns, has developed a range ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), along with two other international consumer protection networks, announced on Thursday the results of a study into the use of “dark patterns” — or manipulative ...

Mozilla is once again accusing Microsoft of using manipulative design in Windows to push users toward its AI assistant, Copilot. The nonprofit behind the Firefox browser argues that pop-up prompts and ...

Do you ever find yourself wasting time trying to close a pushy pop-up? Or discover that you’re subscribed to something you don’t remember signing up for? These things happen to all of us when website ...